john tower of texas and strom, who was also a secret dixie-crat. >> john lewis shows up with a speech in which he says, he's going to get up at that podium and say, we do not support the president's civil rights legislation, because it does not go far enough. >> the unsaid thing that we have mentioned through all of the last few days is black politicians couldn't speak. adam klain couldn't speak because of the politics. adam sat on the side and listened to the speak. >> why couldn't he speak? >> because no one knew what he was saying. and there was the tension with the kennedys and all of that. there was a lot of what we hear today, we romanticize that it didn't happen yesterday. it did. >> i remember dr. king, i have to tell you, he was controversial right to the end. when he started pushing for jobs, and then he started pushing against the vietnam war, i remember my brother saying, why doesn't he stick to his thing. the thing meant blacks were getting killed in vietnam. that thing enlarged, wasn't like he thought of the vietnam war, you know? >> reverend al sharpton, host of politic